Job Description
Job Description :
The New York Post delivers the best in News, Sports, Entertainment and Pop Culture with wit, irreverence and authority. Over the past 224 years, The Post has evolved into a multi-platform media company spanning print, digital, video, audio, app, television and commerce.
The New York Post Digital Network offers highly addictive, irresistible content with a dedicated following of leading influencers, and a renowned tradition of bold coverage with revealing news features and in depth exclusives. Made up of NYPost.com, PageSix.com and Decider.com we offer a fresh experience to users and brand partners.
We are seeking a highly skilled, analytical, and motivated Analyst, Programmatic to join our dynamic Advertising Operations team. This individual will play a key role in optimizing revenue performance across our programmatic ecosystem, partnering closely with sales, ad tech, and finance teams to deliver data-driven insights and ensure operational efficiency. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, and thrives in a fast-paced media environment-someone who's not only fluent in the language of ad tech, but also energized by solving problems and uncovering growth opportunities in a constantly evolving digital landscape.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain accurate revenue and performance forecasts to support senior leadership in strategic decision-making.
- Partner with the programmatic and ad operations teams to identify growth opportunities, mitigate risks, and troubleshoot campaign delivery issues to ensure revenue goals are met.
- Integrate and manage partner data connections into our analytics platform, ensuring accuracies and completeness of information.
- Monitor and analyze programmatic campaign pacing and delivery on a weekly and monthly basis, proactively addressing underperformance.
- Produce and distribute weekly inventory and yield reports for Sales and Executive teams, highlighting trends, gaps, and opportunities.
- Collaborate with Finance and Billing to reconcile monthly campaign revenue, resolve reporting discrepancies, and ensure financial data accuracy.
- Track and report on key programmatic metrics, including fill rates, CPM trends, eCPM performance, and sell-through rates for both direct and indirect channels.
- Assist in developing media benchmarks and yield optimization strategies across SSPs, DSPs, and exchanges.
- Maintain and enhance internal reporting tools and dashboards; automate repetitive reporting tasks where possible.
- Prepare short- and long-term revenue projections by product, channel, and platform, aligning with evolving business objectives.
- Stay current on industry trends and platform updates, proactively making data-driven recommendations for revenue and inventory optimization.
Requirements:
- At least 3-5 years of experience in digital media, with a focus on programmatic yield, revenue operations, or media analytics roles.
- Strong understanding of the programmatic ecosystem including DSPs, SSPs, ad exchanges, and header bidding.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (including pivot tables, vlookup, and data modeling); familiarity with SQL or BI tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau) is preferred.
- Experience with Google Ad Manager (GAM) or similar ad serving platforms required.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with ad ops, sales, and finance teams to achieve revenue and performance goals.
- Highly detail-oriented, analytical, and organized; capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly present data insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Self-motivated, resourceful, and proactive-comfortable working independently and collaboratively.
Note: The New York Post adheres to a hybrid work model. This position will be expected to report on-site 3 days per week.
At The New York Post we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, our ranges reflect our good faith estimate to pay fairly as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
In addition to compensation, the company provides eligible employees a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Accordingly, offers extended for this role will include an annual bonus target. Similarly to salary, set annual incentive bonus targets are based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice, experience, tenure, and essential skills.
As an equal opportunity employer, the New York Post does not discriminate in hiring or the terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The New York Post will consider the provision of reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental disabilities of otherwise qualified applicants to enable them to participate in our application process and to effectively perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would impose an undue financial or operational hardship.
Pay Range: $70,000 - $100,000
Job Tags
Temporary work, Local area, 3 days per week,